The Effects Of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

In the article “Do you have Post- Traumatic Slave Syndrome?”, the author Cindy George brings to light the mental health dynamics of PTSS, Post-traumatic slave syndrome. The author discusses the behaviors and reactions of African Americans in different life situations could stem back from their ancestors being in chattel slavery. Post-traumatic slave syndrome (PTSS), is clinical name for this mental disorder amongst African Americans. Based on the research by Dr. Joy DeGuy, PTSS is a term she uses

horror movie script, but was actually a harsh reality for children involved with the slave trade. In the year 1807, the United Kingdom passed a Bill that had abolished the slave trade within the British Empire. This Bill did not abolish slavery itself, but lead to the British Navy’s missions of intercepting slaving ships along the coast of West Africa (Burroughs). A photograph taken in the year 1869, shows around 95 slave children that had been rescued from a slaving vessel and brought aboard the Daphne

principles include groupthink and of course knowing the outcome of the event. Such principles sooner explain the reality of life because it stresses how individuals react due to their past experiences like the Holocaust and most importantly how traumatic events build them as who they are today.  Innocent Jews went through starvation, terrible working conditions, and the elimination of race through torture such as gas chambers. Furthermore, the history of this controversial event is now being used

citizens have undergone many modern changes since slavery and its abolition, the effects of enslavement and oppression are still evident today. Many works such as Rituals of Blood: The Consequences of Slavery in Two American Cities, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy all explain a common conclusion; the chattel enslavement of African-Americans left a profound effect on former slaves and their descenders. In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois wrote in The Souls of Black Folk

diagnosis and treatment. Commonly observed physiological and psychological effects of abduction and trafficking include Stockholm syndrome, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. By inducing this type of trauma, abductors and traffickers are permanently impairing victims’ abilities to function normally in their communities. An individual can be introduced to human trafficking, more specifically the sex slave industry, either immediately or by gradually becoming involved while remaining

movement of women, men, and children, across or within national borders for the purposes of sexual, labor, and other forms of exploitation, and is an important public health issue (Oram). There are three main issues of human trafficking, which is slave labor, sexual exploitation, and prostitution (Oram).

All RES on African Americans is damaging, each individual is affected differently and to place emphasize on one effect or another seems invalidating. People continue to feel hopeless and powerless and feel that prejudice, discrimination and inequity are things they must accept. One, black or white, is taught to not speak up about prejudice, discrimination and inequity which then leads to resentment, shame and self blame. And it is this never ending cycle then leads to isolation, self-destructive

Slavery The very first means of human trafficking came by way of slavery. The history of slavery spans nearly every culture, nationality, and religion and from prehistoric times to the present day. However, the social, economic, and legal positions of slaves were immeasurably different in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery can be drawn back to the earliest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BC), which refers to it as a reputable institution. Slavery is erratic

From an opposite viewpoint many companies find different ways to help survive and/or maintain their economic status by cutting back on hiring, layoffs, cut backs on advertising and marketing. In the article written by Thomas Cushman entitled The Moral Economy of the Great Recession, Cushman examines the Great Recession of 2008. During this economic catastrophe unemployment was on the rise, the housing market was dwindling at an alarming rate, both large and small business were affected. Countless

be the same. Slavery made a lasting mark on what is considered justice versus what could be. Slave masters went off their chains at times when it came to the beating of a slave. There was no remorse for these men, if something needed to be done, in their eyes it was going to be done, and their mark was going to be made. Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary wrote a novel by the name of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, it is the PTSD of slavery and it still affects